A former sports columnist for The Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, and Toronto Sun, he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1993 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
[2] In 1980, Strachan joined The Globe and Mail[1] where he was the 1993 recipient of the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award.
This was cut short in 2005 when he was fired from Hockey Night in Canada's Satellite Hot Stove panel.
[6] Shortly after the release of his book Why The Leafs Suck: And How They Can Be Fixed in 2009, Strachan was let go from Hockey Night in Canada a second time.
[7][8] CBC stated this was because the cover of the book portrayed Strachan with a Hockey Night in Canada tag without permission.